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Computational Study on the Electrical Behavior of Silicon Nanowire Memristive Biosensors

Tzouvadaki, Ioulia  
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Puppo, Francesca  
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De Micheli, Giovanni  
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2015
IEEE Sensors Journal

In this paper, a complete study is carried out investigating the relationship between the biosensing and the electrical characteristics of freestanding two-terminal Schottky-barrier silicon nanowires. This paper successfully reproduces computationally the electrical behavior obtained experimentally from the nanowire devices before and after the surface biomodification. Throughout modeling and simulations, this paper confirms that the experimental results obtained from the electrical characterization of bare two-terminal Schottky-barrier silicon nanowires present current-to-voltage characteristics fully equivalent to that of a pure memristor device, according to the literature. Furthermore, this paper shows that the voltage gap appearing in the current-to-voltage characteristics for nanowires with biomodified surface is related to capacitive effects due to minority carriers in the nanowire and it is also indicated that those effects are strongly affected by the concentration of antigens uptaken on the device surface. Overall, this paper confirms the implication of the memristive effect for biosensing applications and therefore, demonstrates the memristive biosensors.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/JSEN.2015.2456336
Web of Science ID

WOS:000360450900019

Author(s)
Tzouvadaki, Ioulia  
Puppo, Francesca  
De Micheli, Giovanni  
Carrara, Sandro  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume

15

Issue

11

Start page

6208

End page

6217

Subjects

antigen uptake

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biosensor

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memristor

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Schottky barrier

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antigen

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silicon nanowire

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REVIEWED

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